Textiles in Architecture |
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| Authors: | Bradley Quinn |
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| Abstract: | ‘The cutting edge in architecture is not sharp, but sensuous and soft.’ As textiles begin to emerge as megamaterials, Bradley Quinn explains how architects are pioneering new possibilities for soft structures. Fabric-formed environments are fashioning tensile buildings and inflatable pavilions, while the tailoring techniques of braiding, weaving and pleating are building supple skyscrapers and bioclimatic enclosures. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | GKD Metal Fabrics, Mediamesh stainless-steel textile Felted fabrics Metallic fabrics coated textiles and nonwoven fabrics carbon-fibre matrices and triaxial meshes pneumatic structures Veech Media Architecture, Sprach Pavilion, Austria, 2001 Triad Architects, Karau, Kühe & Kühn Architects, A Büther, Becker & Gewers, Expo 2000 Bertelsmann's Planet M, Hanover, Germany, 2000 Inflate and Architects of Air The Fabric Framework project Mark West at the Centre for Architectural Structure and Technology Buckminster Fuller braiding and weaving Ken Yeang's proposal for bioclimatic architecture Shigeru Ban's Curtain Wall House Lévi-Strauss's theory of ‘bricolage’ Lars Spuybroek, Maison Folie, Lille, France, 2004 Geotextiles Semper |
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